A lot of people were very angry with him for causing Harriet Jones' downfall... mostly because it was portrayed as *right*.
Would have been cursing at the screen except that I couldn't believe what I was seeing . . .

Thankfully as the show went on we saw more and more of how this tendency was not 'good', and that Ten wasn't always 'right'
I just wish that had happened a little more consistently. It strikes me as a show situated somewhat awkwardly in between that preachy, fairy-tale morality structure and that gritty, impossible decisions, no one is right realism--and the disconnect often just ended up feeling . . . hypocritical. And of course Ten felt hypocritical, and that's interesting and fine and worth exploring, but when the show itself felt hypocritical too . . . *grrrr* But then the show was so very dominated by Ten's tunnel vision, there was almost no avoiding that, I don't think.

But going back to the former point, that is what RTD does best of all - creating situations where there is no right answer, where doing nothing is as fatal as doing something.
Oh, yes, those are quite brilliant, I agree.

I... have no idea what I'm saying anymore. *walks away to get dressed*
Genuine lol! It's ok. There was sense in there, I think ;-)

I think the distinction between Ten and Eleven is that they would both make the same choice (because the Doctor is the Doctor is the Doctor), but Ten has a need to enforce his own moral code that Eleven thankfully doesn't (see River, with her different outlook).
And my response to that is . . . my fic! Ahhhh, that feels good.